Vishwas Satgar ─ The Crisis of South African Democracy: The Challenge to Civil Society and Transformative Politics

Vishwas Satgar is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has been a grass roots activist in South Africa for more than 3 decades. He is currently engaged in supporting the Solidarity Economy Movement in township communities, supporting food sovereignty campaigning, climate jobs campaigning and defending popular democracy in South Africa. His academic interests include a focus on African political economy, Empire and Global crisis, Green Global political Economy and Transnational Alternatives.